The Singers – Developing through the Generations

Developer Gregg Singer is the CEO of Singer Financial Corporation, a New York real estate investment firm. He is in fact the fourth generation of real estate developers starting with his great-grandfather Louis Singer in the early 1900s.

Louis Singer began his real estate development career (and the family tradition) in 1914 by founding Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens, New York. He went on to complete several other cemetery developments within the New York Metropolitan area, Mount Hebron, Mount Carmel, Cedar Grove, Cedar Park, and Beth Israel. It was Louis, also, that began to connect the boundaries of land development and philanthropic social work, a trend that his family still continues to follow. He founded the non-sectarian non-profit organization Home of Old Israel in 1922, which provided senior aged citizens with free housing and meals.

The next Singer down the line was Jack, Louis’s son. During the 1950s and 60s Jack had worked on diverse development projects that included research facilities in the Southeast for major companies such as Dupont and 3M Corporation. In 1966, Jack built the largest seniors’ housing in the country, an 1100-apartment community known as Segirt Village in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. He continued his father’s work and went on to merge the Home of Old Israel with JASA, the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged, a volunteer social services agency that provides aid to elderly citizens of all backgrounds.

Jack’s son, Mike, and his wife, Elly, continued working in the real estate business in the state of Florida. Mike Singer built buildings such as shopping centers and apartment buildings in South Florida. In 1970, Elly Singer founded a nonprofit drug rehabilitation center called Concept House, the first of its kind in the state of Florida. Concept House remains a vital nonprofit service for many victims of substance abuse.

Mike and Elly’s son, Gregg, founded the NYC-based Singer Financial Corporation in 1986. Since then, he has worked on a variety of property types, ranging from shopping centers to residential buildings. He has also carried on his family’s work to improve the lives of the elderly by providing even more low-income housing for senior citizens. Singer Financial Corporation’s past works include projects throughout the United States, with a focus in the northeast, California, and Florida. Unique overseas properties are also considered. For more information, visit the SFC website here.